This post briefly introduces an R package created for the NHS-R Community to help us learn and teach R. Firstly, […]
This post briefly introduces an R package created for the NHS-R Community to help us learn and teach R. Firstly, […]
I suspect there are many blogs about R and why it’s so great: It’s free! It’s open source! There’s a […]
Exact matching in R: a case study of the health and care costs associated with living alone, using linked data […]
It’s at this time of year I need to renew my season ticket and I usually get one for the […]
Getting data into R One of the things I found most difficult when learning R was getting data from our SQL Servers […]
Funnel plots Funnel plots are a common tool for comparing organisations or units using proportions or standardised rates. A common […]
Down in the South West of England we at the PenCHORD team of the NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula have […]
When Mohammed asked if I would be interested in doing a blog on how “we”, Information and Analytics in NHS […]
Background A Public Health consultant colleague Ian Bowns (@IantheBee) created a report to monitor mortality within the Trust and he […]
Every Thursday during winter, roughly from December to March, NHS Digital releases a week’s worth of hospital performance data, known as […]
I was interested in creating an animated graph […]
Understanding variation using runs analysis Run charts are simple and powerful tools that help discriminate between random and non-random variation […]
The problem I was working with a dataset where I wanted to assess the correlation of different variables in R. […]
At the NHS R Conference, I suggested to people that they should embrace the idea of package-based development rather than […]
We finally have a tool that is data independent. R allows the scripting of a data science methodology that we […]
A common scenario: you are new to a programming language, chuffed that you’ve done a few bits and progressing well. […]
Having recently attended an R meetup in Birmingham, hearing of various user groups and hackathons that take place around certain […]
It’s been a few weeks since the first NHS-R conference was held in Birmingham. I co-presented a couple of workshops […]
This blog was written by Zoe Turner, Senior Information Analyst at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Soon after I started […]
Text Mining – Term Frequency analysis and Word Cloud creation in R Analysing the pre-conference workshop sentiments Loading in the […]
I went to the NHS-R Community Conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. It was great. Here are three observations about it. […]
At the NHS R Conference, I suggested to people that they should embrace the idea of package-based development rather than […]
Installation Instructions (Part 1 of 2) Windows Users To Install R: Open an internet browser and go to r-project.org. Click the […]
